Abubakar Halilu Girei was born on 14 March 1954 and is a Nigerian politician who served as the senator representing Adamawa Central senatorial district from 1999 to 2003, at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic.
11 Facts About Abubakar Girei
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In January 2011, Girei was a contender to be the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Adamawa Central Senatorial District in the 2011 elections, but came third in the primaries.
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Senator Abubakar H Girei was born on 14 March 1954 in Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
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Abubakar Girei attended the famous Barewa College, Zaria for his secondary education and Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Quantity Surveying and Masters in Business Administration.
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Abubakar Girei is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor, Real Estate Developer and a Construction Management Consultant.
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Senator Abubakar Girei is a Fellow of Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management and a member of the prestigious National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies Kuru, Jos where he served as the Monitor General of SEC 31.
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Abubakar Girei worked for the defunct Gongola State Government as a Quantity Surveyor and rose to the rank of Principal Quantity Surveyor in 1984.
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Senator Abubakar Girei then moved on to the Nigeria Agricultural and Cooperative Bank Limited in 1985 as Manager, Property Division and then became the General Manager, Estate Department, from 1988 to 1996.
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Abubakar Girei resigned to set up his consultancy firm, Premier Association Consultants which he ran as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer between 1996 and 1999.
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Senator Abubakar Girei has served on the boards of numerous public and private companies as well as Tertiary Institutions.
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Senator Abubakar Girei is a major stakeholder in the People's Democratic Party, Adamawa State and the North East Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria.